With a pre-summit workshop for Department Chairs and Research Directors on 7 October, 2009

Conference Program

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8 OCTOBER

08:30-09:15 Registration

09:15-09:30 Welcome and introduction:

• Christine Choppy, University Paris 13, France.
  
• Bertrand Meyer, President of Informatics Europe, ETH-Zurich, Switzerland.

09:30-11:00 Keynotes:
Session chair: Jørgen Staunstrup , IT U. of Copenhagen, Denmark

• 09:30-10:15 - Khalil Rouhana, European Commission, DG INFSO, Head of Unit, Strategy for ICT research and innovation
  An EU strategy for ICT research and innovation: raising the game
  [Slides]
• 10:15-11:00 - Alain Finkel , ENS de Cachan, France
  Mental Imagery in Computer Science
  [Slides]

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-13:00 Keynotes:
Session chair: Frédéric Benhamou , Université de Nantes

• 11:30-12:15 - Mark Harris, Intel
  The role of Informatics in addressing the Big Global Challenges
  [Slides]
• 12:15-13:00 - Alain Berthoz , College de France, French Academy of Sciences
  New frontiers between Informatics, Robotics and Cognitive Neuroscience
  

13:00-14:30 Lunch

14:30-15:15 Keynote:
Session chair: Jan van Leeuwen , University of Utrecht, the Netherlands
Wendy Hall , President of the ACM, Fellow of the Royal Society, University of Southampton
What is Web Science and why is it important?

15:15-15:45 Coffee break

15:45-17:15 Parallel sessions

Session I:Multidisciplinary Curricula
Session chair: Antoine Petit , INRIA, Paris - Rocquencourt, France

• Models in Law - A multidisciplinary project in the second cycle R&D program of the BME Innovation and Knowledge Centre of Information Technology
  Karoly Kondorosi, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
  [Slides]
• A Graduate Program in Business Informatics: Experiences at the University of Pisa
  Antonio Albano , Salvatore Ruggieri, University of Pisa, Italy
  [Slides]
• Teaching Logic Programming Tools for Interdisciplinary Computing
  Gemma Bel-Enguix, Rovira i Virgili University, Spain
  Veronica Dahl, Simon Fraser University, Canada
  M. Dolores Jiménez-Lopez
  [Slides]
• Multidisciplinary research projects feeding master curricula
  Dan Cristea, Dorel Lucanu, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania
  [Slides]

Session II:Teaching Informatics
Session chair: Hans-Ulrich Heiss , TU Berlin, Germany

• Professional Doctorate Program for Software Architects
  J.C.M. Baeten, K. M. van Hee, H.T.G. Weers, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
  [Slides]
• Student diversity in CS1
  Michela Pedroni, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  Manuel Oriol, University of York, United Kingdom
  Bertrand Meyer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  [Slides]
• Resilient Computing: a multi-disciplinary MSc Curriculum
  Luca Simoncini, University of Pisa, Italy
  [Slides]

Session III:Multidisciplinary research; Evaluation
Session chair: Enrico Nardelli , Università di Roma "Tor Vergata" and GRIN

• Principles of Integrative Environmental Simulations
  Rolf Hennicker, Sebastian Bauer, Stephan Janisch, Matthias Ludwig, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
  [Slides]
• IMPROVE, a Large Research Project on Chemical Engineering Design Processes, or Is Joint Research with Engineers Attractive for Computer Scientists?
  Manfred Nagl, RWTH Aachen, Germany
  [Slides]
• Energy Informatics - Computer Science for Power and Energy Systems of the Future
  Martin Leucker, Martin Sachenbacher, Technische Universität München, Germany
  [Slides]
• Is peer review any good? An analysis framework and large-scale experiments
  Fabio Casati, Maurizio Marchese, Azzurra Ragone, Matteo Turrini, Universita degli studi di Trento, Italy

18:00-19:45 Reception and Launch of ACM Europe

20:00-22:15 Conference dinner

9 OCTOBER

08:30-9:00 Registration

09:00-10:30 Keynotes:
Session chair: Bertrand Meyer , ETH Zurich, Switzerland

• 09:00-09:45 - Joseph Sifakis , Turing Award 2007, CNRS, France
  Embedded Systems Design – Scientific Challenges and Work Directions
  [Slides]
• 09:45-10:30 - Yrjö Neuvo , European Institut for Innovation and Technology board
  Research, Education and Business - European Institute of Innovation and Technology
  

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-12:30 Panel: What Kind of Interactions Between Informatics and the Other Sciences?
Moderator: Jan van Leeuwen , University of Utrecht, the Netherlands
Panelists:

• Wendy Hall , President of the ACM, Fellow of the Royal Society, University of Southampton
• Bertrand Meyer , ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Yrjö Neuvo , European Institut for Innovation and Technology board
• Erik Sandewall , Linköping University, Sweden
• Joseph Sifakis , Turing Award 2007, CNRS, France

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:30 Keynotes:
Session chair: Christine Choppy , Paris 13, France

• 14:00-14:45 - Marko Tadic , University of Zagreb, Croatia
  Language Technologies: a Happy Marriage between Linguistics and Informatics
  [Slides]
• 14:45-15:30 - Georg Gottlob , University of Oxford, UK
  Computer Science as the Continuation of Logic by other Means
  [Slides]

15:30-16:45 Informatics Europe initiatives:

• Data Collection
  Bertrand Meyer & Minh Tran
• Department Evaluation: a service from Informatics Europe?
  Letizia Tanca , Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Presentation of the EQANIE initiative
  Hans-Ulrich Heiss, Technical Universität Berlin, Germany

16:45-17:00 Closing Remarks:
Christine Choppy, University Paris 13, France.

17:00-17:15 Coffee break

17:15-18:30 Informatics Europe - General Assembly
Chair: Bertrand Meyer,
President of Informatics Europe, ETH-Zurich, Switzerland.

 

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